NAME

alta-diag - EEPROM setup and diagnostic program for ethernet cards based on the chip
Sundance ST201 "Alta".

SYNOPSIS

alta-diag [options]

DESCRIPTION

alta-diag is a program that you can use to diagnose problems with ethercards based the
Sundance ST201 "Alta" Chip as well as reconfiguring it.

OPTIONS

These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with
two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below.
-h,--help
Show summary of options.
-V,--version
Show version of program.
-v,--verbose
Verbose mode.
-D Debug mode.
-q,--quiet
Be very unverbose.
-a,--all
Print all registers.
-e,--show-eeprom
Dump EEPROM contents to stdout.
-E,--emergency-rewrite
Re-write a corrupted EEPROM.
-p,--port-base<port>
Specify port to use.
-#<cardnum>
Use card number <cardnum>.
-A,--Advertise<mediaype>
Advertise media type. Valid Options are: 10baseT, 100baseTx, 100baseTx-FD,
100baseTx-HD, 10baseT-FD and 10baseHD.
-F,--new-interface<interface>
Interface number. Options that make sense are: 10baseT, 100baseTx, 10baseT-FDX,
100baseTx-FDX, 100baseT4, 100baseFx, 100baseFx-FDX, MII and Autosense.
-H,--new-hwaddress<address>
Set card to a new hardware address.
-m,--show-mii
Dump MII management registers.
-R,--reset
Reset the transceiver.
-T,--test
Do register and SRAM test.
-t,--chip-type<type>
Use chip type. Only available option is "Sundance Technology Alta", but more may
come.
-w,--write-EEPROM<values>
Write to the EEPROMS with the specified values. Do not use this, if you do not know
what you do!
-#[card-number]
Specify card to work on.
-B Dumps the flash to the screen.
-L<file>
Load file and write it into the flash.
-S<file>
Saves the flash to a file. -t,--chip-type<card> Explicitly set the chip. To get
all valid numbers, run alta-diag with the options '-t -1'.

SEEALSO

AUTHOR

alta-diag was written and is still maintained by Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>. This
manual page was written by Alain Schroeder <alain@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux
system (but may be used by others).
February 18, 2002 ALTA-DIAG(8)